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Greater New Lodge
Community Festival
2019
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Scoil Samhraidh Mhic Reachtain
(McCracken Summer School Festival 2019)
Sunday 28th July - Saturday 3rd August
The award winning and internationally renowned Scoil Samhraidh Mhic Reachtain festival (McCracken Summer School),
now celebrating its 20th year, will run from Sunday 28th July - Saturday 3rd August this year. The north’s largest
Irish language, arts and cultural festival attracts visitors from all over the Ireland and the globe, to North Belfast every
summer. This year’s programme consists of a guided walk on Cavehill, traditional music session at Mc Art’s Fort, an
Irish language course for adults (SOLD OUT), concerts, talks and lectures, singing workshops, daily traditional music
sessions, International food day, Night of the Scribes, 20th anniversary dinner and concert in Crumlin Road Gaol, and
much more. It’s easy to register for workshops and talks, or purchase tickets for the gigs and free events.. Visit website:
Eventbrite.com / SSMR 20, or call into Áras Mhic Reachtain, opposite the Waterworks. Don’t hang about though, get
booking!
Proudly supported by Arts Council NI, Belfast City Council, Foras na Gaeilge, Colmcille, Ciste and Open University.
Contact Ferdia or Daithí on (028) 90 749688 for more information.
Find us on Facebook at ‘Cumann Cultúrtha Mhic Reachtain’
Email: eolas@mhicreachtain.com or daithi@mhicreachtain.com
AT FIRST LIGHT
BRÉAG GRÁINNE HOLLAND
NA MOONEYS ORAN BAGRAIDH PROJECT
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Greater New Lodge Community Festival Programme 2019
Introduction
Hello and welcome to the 2019 Greater New Lodge Community Festival Programme. As you can see for yourself the
programme is once again packed with a wide variety of arts and cultural gigs.
The festival offers an opportunity to promote pride in our community, strengthen local relationships and learn new
things. As always we would like as many residents as possible to show their support for the various events. Most
importantly we want everyone to have a really good time!
On behalf of the Festival Organising Committee, a big thank you to all of those involved in making this programme
possible, especially local community groups, workers and volunteers. A big thanks also to Belfast City Council and
Newington Housing Association for funding the programme. Special thanks to Féile an Phobail for their advice
encouragement and support.
Paul O’Neill
Greater New Lodge Community Festival
For further details contact: Paul O’Neill at the Ashton Centre on 028 90 742255
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Greater New Lodge Community Festival Programme 2019
Calling on local residents to come along and help with a
Saturday 27th July community clean-up of the area and enjoy a free burger
Community Fun Day in the Waterworks
12.00 - 3.00pm: Free Event
and refreshments afterwards. Residents will also have
the opportunity to view and comment on community
A great day of free family entertainment and amusement proposals for a positive redesign of the general site
for people of all ages! Come along to join the New Lodge including North Queen Street Steps, green space and
Arts gang for some summer fun as they bring Beach Life playpark area.
to the Waterworks. Enjoy fruit cocktails, arts & crafts,
street theatre, music and much more at this free, family For information contact Paul O’Neill 028 90 742255
event. There will also be boating events where young and
old can try their hand at rowing and flavour some of the
most beautiful hand built boats of our maritime heritage. New Lodge Arts Presents High School Musical
Boats will include Dunfanaghy, Tory and Gola Island
Curachs, and Lough Neagh Cots. Instruction and safety
equipment provided. A rotational system will be in place
for use of the boats. No booking required, first come
first serve basis. Bandstand featuring music from ‘Feile
Unplugged’.
Event Organised by New Lodge Arts, supported by Feile.
For information contact 028 90 742255.
Historical Bus Tour with Joe Baker
Time: 9.00am
Famine Graves, Fermanagh, places limited, to book a
place ring 028 90 742255
Price £10 (returned when you attend the tour)
Meeting Point: Ashton Centre
Wednesday 31st July
Community Clean Up and BBQ
1.00 3.00pm
Carlisle Playpark (Near the Recy)
Free Event.
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Thursday 1st August
Belfast: Remaking the City Documentary and
Discussion
2.00pm
Duncairn Centre for Culture and Arts
Free Event
Presenting a short community made documentary
called, ‘On Our Doorstep’ summarising the issues facing
Academy, open to all young budding performers. The
programme will include Dance and Drama sessions led by
our tutors Annie & Sarah. So if you love to perform and
want so showcase your talents – this is the project for you.
The project runs from Monday –Friday 10.am-3pm. A final
performance will take place at 3pm on Friday – everyone
welcome!
For more information, please contact New Lodge Arts on
028 90742255
Saturday 3rd August
hundreds of residents living in the midst of unprecedented
urban redevelopment. In the next 5 years around 80
acres of Inner North Belfast will be redeveloped bringing Massive Day of Sport
with it massive challenges to community life as we
know it. This raises serious questions for policy makers 2.00pm - 5.00pm
about how they can achieve the objectives of the Belfast Girdwood Hub: Free Event
Agenda that envisages a “sustainable city shared and
loved by its citizens”. Academics, planners, policy makers As part of this year’s festival The Tackling Awareness of
and community activists discuss these issues. Mental health Issues (TAMHI) Project will host a sporting
extravaganza. Various sports activities and games for
For Further Information contact Mark Hackett or Paul all ages including colour run. Stick your sports gear on
O’Neill Ashton Centre 028 90 742255 and come on down – you won’t be disappointed! Fun
Friday 2nd August
Public Art Exhibition
Duncairn Centre for Culture and Arts
Free Event
This art exhibition will be open for several days. For
further information, contact Duncairn Centre for Culture
and Arts on 02890 747114. Gallery open hours may vary.
New Lodge Arts Present Junior Theatre Showcase and laughter for people of all ages, including amusement
activities for the kiddies.
3.00pm
North Queen Street Community Centre (RECY) For further information contact Joe Donnelly at
Free Event help4tamhi2011@outlook.com or on Facebook: TAMHI.FC
New Lodge Arts presents - the Junior Summer Arts
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Sunday 4th August Monday 5th August
Brassneck Theatre Presents its Latest Drama: The ‘Arts’ of War
Something in the Air
2.00pm
7.00pm Duncairn Centre for Culture and Arts
Duncairn Centre for Culture and Arts. Free Event
Reflections on the impact art has played in conflict,
peace and reconciliation
In arts and culture has our conflict been depicted in
balanced terms or has there been an unfair bias towards
the cause of historic nationalism - a complaint of
many within the unionist community, given a certain
predominance on stage, film and literature? If true, why is
that the case? Can there be, should there be, a corrective
to this perceived one-sidedness? Expect a passionate and
robust panel discussion on an issue that plays out within
the arts community, public funding and its extension into
contemporary politics. Speakers: Playwright and short
story writer Rosemary Jenkinson; playwright and writer
Laurence McKeown, writer and commentator Danny
Morrison and Dr. Connal Parr, Lecturer in History and
board member of Etcetera Theatre Company Lecturer.
Chaired by Tori Watson BBC Journalist.
Part of Féile’s Community Engagement Programme,
Supported by The Executive Office, T:BUC (Together
Building United Communities) In partnership with the
Greater New Lodge Community Festival.
Tickets- Cash Sale £10, contact Una at Duncairn. For information contact Una 028 90 747114
Online/Credit Card Sale, £11.50 www.theduncairn.com
Cake Decorating Workshop
On the 15th August 1969, Bombay Street in West Belfast
was burned to the ground. Hundreds of families fled south 10.00am
to refugee camps, escaping the violence, but one young Culture Shop Lepper Street ( Ashton Centre)
woman lost more than just her home. Fifty years later, she Free Event
is forced to confront the events of that summer in a way
she could never have imagined.
For further information, contact Una at Duncairn Centre
for Culture and Arts on 02890 747114 or Paul O’Neill at
Ashton on 02890 742255
Contact Joanne @ New Lodge Arts on 028 90 742255 to
secure your place.
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Tuesday 6th August Sahour decide to buy 18 cows and produce their own milk
as a co-operative. Their venture is so successful that the
collective farm becomes a landmark, and the cows local
The Bigger Family Picture: From 1798 to Partition celebrities—until the Israeli army takes note and declares
1.00pm that the farm is an illegal security threat.
Clifton House, North Queen Street
This talk explores the Bigger family of Mallusk and For information contact Una 028 90 747114
Belfast through some of the family’s most interesting
personalities. From David Bigger, Belfast Charitable Decoupage Workshop – Wine bottles Decoration
Society member & United Irishman; to the Home-Rule M.P
Joe Biggar and the 10.00am
radical Protestant Culture Shop Lepper Street (Ashton Centre)
Nationalist and Free Event
antiquarian Francis
Joseph Bigger. Contact Joanne @ New Lodge Arts on 028 90 742255 to
Come along and secure your place
hear the tales
about the Bigger Wednesday 7th August
Family from 1798
to Partition. Talk
delivered by Aaron New Lodge Carnival Day
McIntyre, (Archive 2.00pm - 5.00pm
and Heritage Star Neighbourhood Centre
Development Free Event
Officer, Clifton
House), and A great family day out come along and enjoy all the
chaired by Paula Reynolds Chief Executive of the Belfast fun of the carnival. Ride the Bumper Cars, bounce on
Charitable Society. the Bungee Trampolines, ride the Rodeo Bull. Challenge
yourself on the Wipe-out Sweeper and the Bungee
Supported by INTERCOMM; In conjunction with the Run. For the wee ones we have Toddler Playzone, Party
Greater New Lodge Community Festival supported by Playhouse, Inflatable Slide and Large Bouncy Castle.
Féile Community Engagement Programme
The event is free, but booking is essential. Please phone Grab a burger and have your face painted all for free
02890 997022.
For Further Information contact Maria Valente 028 90 740
Film: The Wanted 18: Palestine 693
7.00pm
Duncairn Centre for Culture and Arts
Free Event
Through a clever mix of stop motion animation and
interviews, The Wanted 18 recreates an astonishing true
story: the
Israeli army’s
pursuit of 18
cows, whose
independent
milk production
on a Palestinian
collective farm
was declared
“a threat to
the national
security of the
state of Israel.” In response to the Israeli occupation of
the West Bank, a group of people from the town of Beit
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Wednesday 7th August Continued organised by Newington Housing and New Lodge Housing
Forum. Any residents wanting to help out with the clean-
up contact Martin at Newington Housing Association 028
Celtic Songs and Dance: Moya Brennan 90 744055
8.00pm
Abundant Grace, 130-134 Duncairn Gardens Big Festival of Fun
Tickets £5 - All proceeds go to ‘Special Olympics Ireland’
12.00- 4.00pm
Lepper Street: Free Event
An evening of Celtic sounds and dance with Moya
Brennan and the Zephaniah Dancers.
Grammy award winner, Moya Brennan is the singer Greater New Lodge Community Festival’s headline event
of Clannad as well as having a successful solo career. brings a spectacular fun-fest of comedy, music, theatre,
Often referred to as the ‘First Lady of Celtic Music’, Moya circus mayhem, walkabout acts to the streets of the New
has sung on most of the world’s great stages and has Lodge. An afternoon of entertainment, fun and mischief
collaborated with many notable artists including The awaits the audience. So come along and join in! This
Chieftains, Paul Brady and Bono. She has recorded music event is a must for all local families!
for several soundtracks, including Titanic, To End All Wars
and King Arthur. The power of her whispered tones and For information contact New Lodge Arts 02890 742255
the beauty of her music touch the soul.
Not to be missed!
Eamon Phoenix Talk: Ireland in Transition 1916-19
For tickets /info contact: Sharon Perry tel: 07737645029
email: info@abundantgrace.ie 7.00pm
Duncairn Centre for Culture and Arts
Thursday 8th August Free Event
Long Streets Community Clean Up
11.00am
This illustrated talk will cover the impact of and reactions
to the 1916 Rising; the rise of Sinn Féin, the Conscription
Meet at New Lodge Housing Office, 23 New Lodge Road Crisis and the last All-Ireland General Election; the first
Help keep our streets clean and tidy! Street clean-up Dáil, Edward Carson’s move to Duncairn; De Valera and
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Joe Devlin; the Ulster Unionist Labour Association; the and bitterness even further? Is dealing with the legacy
1919 Belfast Engineering Strike; the escalation of the of conflict an essential exercise in peace building or is it
War of Independence and the emergence of Partition. A conflict by other means?
special focus will be developments in Belfast.
Introduction and Chair: Joe Austin, Chairperson of the The public is invited to hear a panel of prominent
National Graves Association. commentators and academics discuss these crucially
important issues including Brian Rowan, Pete Shirlow and
Part of Féile’s Community Engagement Programme Kieran McEvoy.
In partnership with the Greater New Lodge Community
Festival For further information contact Tar Isteach - 028 90
746665
For further information, contact Una at Duncairn Centre
for Culture and Arts on 02890 747114
The Long Streets: Looking Back, Looking Forward
Drop in Art Classes 1.00pm - 3.00pm
New Lodge Youth Centre, Upper Meadow Street
2.00pm - 4.00pm Free Event
Culture Shop Lepper Street
(Ashton Centre)
Free Event
For further information contact
Joanne @ New Lodge Arts on
028 90 742255
Friday 9th August
Prosecuting the Peace: Conference
9.30am - 1.00pm
Duncairn Centre for Culture and Arts
Free Event
To celebrate the completion of the most recent phase of
There are many differences of opinion about how to
the building of new homes in the Upper Long Streets area,
address the unresolved legacies of the conflict. Some
Newington Housing Association in conjunction with New
seek prosecutions and punishment while others seek
Lodge Housing Forum has organised a day of celebration
only truth, acknowledgement and respect. Opinion on
and reflection. The event will include a photo exhibition
the causes and culpability for the conflict is a source of
containing images and street scenes from the old Long
fraught debate.
Streets, there will also be music, bouncy castle, games as
well as a number of public speakers.
Food and refreshments provided.
For information contact Martin at Newington Housing
Association 028 90 744055
Ceramic Workshop
10.00am
Culture Shop Lepper Street
(Ashton Centre)
Free Event
Please contact Joanne @
Families, communities and society as a whole may be New Lodge Arts on 028 90
entitled to the truth but is the current process leading us 742255 to secure your place.
towards healing and resolution or is it deepening division
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Friday 9th August Continued Speakers: Bernie McGill, Natalya O’Flaherty; and Danny
Morrison
TDK Family Movie Day Amazing spoken word artist Natalya O’Flaherty has shot
1.00pm - Frozen to national prominence with bravura
7.00pm - Quiet Man performances at the National
Girdwood Community Hub Concert Hall and Electric Picnic,
Free Event appearing twice on The Late Late
Show in a few months. Dubliner
Natalya speaks courageously
and without inhibition about the
youth of today, the challenges and
dilemmas they face on the street or
within family.
Danny Morrison is a well-known commentator and
novelist, former republican prisoner. For over twelve years
he and graphic designer Sean Mistéil
designed Féile an Phobail’s highly-
regarded published programmes.
Sean also designed the stylised
covers of Morrison’s re-issued novels,
West Belfast and The Wrong Man.
Thorndale, Duncairn, Kinnaird (TDK) Residents Group For forty years Danny has been
presents a Movie Day in the Girdwood Community Hub. collecting quotes on a variety of
The Disney musical fantasy Frozen will be shown at 1.00 themes from books and poems
pm, whilst later at 7.00 pm John Ford’s enduring 1952 which appealed to him or suggested
classic the Quiet Man starring John Wayne and Maureen a little insight into the meaning of life. This collaborative
O’Hara is showing. Free popcorn, ice cream and soft book contains around several hundred selections by
drinks provided! Danny, and Sean’s artistic response.
Bernie McGill is the author of two novels, The Butterfly
Cabinet and The Watch House (short-listed for the Irish
Book Day at the Duncairn European Union Prize for Literature
in 2019) and of Sleepwalkers, a
1.00pm - 3.00pm collection of stories short-listed in
Duncairn Centre for Culture & Arts 2014 for the Edge Hill short story
Free Event. prize. She has been published in
the UK, the US and in translation in
Shared Reading is about Italy and the Netherlands. Her short
reading for pleasure and fiction has appeared in anthologies
connecting with other people. Belfast Stories, The Long Gaze
It’s not a class - there’s no Back, The Glass Shore and Female
advance reading, just come Lines. She is the Royal Literary Fund
along and sit back or join in. Writing Fellow, based at the Seamus Heaney Centre,
Bring a friend! Queen’s University, Belfast. www.berniemcgill.com
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Scribes at the Duncairn Hot August Night Older Peoples Event
6.30pm 7.00pm
Duncairn Centre for Culture & Arts Star Neighbourhood Centre
Free Event with Wine Reception Free Event
Chaired by Marnie Kennedy, Shared Reading facilitator Great session of live entertainment, with singing and
and coordinator of Stories@theDuncairn, a volunteer led, dancing through the night. Compered by Pado with
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For tickets contact John O’Hagan
and Finlay McCauley (Memorial
stars in your eyes acts and the highlight of the night is a Garden Committee)
brilliant performance from our own Jim Brown as Elvis
For information contact Maria at the Star (028) 90 740 Sunday 11th August
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Saturday 10th August Sailortown/Little Italy/ Half Bap Reunion
3.00pm - 6.00pm
Tar Isteach Family Fun Day Dockers Club, Pilot Street
2.00pm - 4.00pm Sailortown Regeneration is hosting a Sailortown /Little
North Queen Street Park Italy reunion event in the Dockers on Sunday afternoon
Free Event from 3.00pm with an exhibition of archive photos and
film.
Musical Entertainment.
Contact:
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Fun for all of the family including – Play Bus, Bouncy
Castles, Football Shoot In, Games, Magician, Face
Painting, Music, Fire Engine, Burgers and Drinks All Free.
For information contact Tommy Quigley 028 90 746 664 StJoesSailortown@gmail.com
,QWHUQPHQW 5HÀHFWLRQV Household Collective is showing ‘Futurelands’ an abstract
film about the Rotterdam Docks in the Mission to
7.30pm Seafarers. Prince’s Dock St on Sunday at 1pm and
The Lodge Bar (Old Felons) New Lodge Road a Children’s movie at 4.00pm
Tickets £5.00
Contact:
New Lodge Memorial Garden Committee present a night https://www.facebook.com/household.belfast/
of reflection, discussion and Irish folk music remembering info@householdbelfast.co.uk
the fateful events surrounding the introduction of
Internment when hundreds of people were arrested and
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Community Festival
Programme At A Glance
Saturday 27th July Wednesday 7th August
Community Fun Day in the Waterworks New Lodge Carnival Day at the Star
Historical Bus Tour with Joe Baker Celtic Songs and Dance: Moya Brennan
Wednesday 31st July Thursday 8th August
Community Clean Up and BBQ Long Streets Community Clean Up
New Lodge Arts Presents High School Musical Big Festival of Fun
Thursday 1st August Eamon Phoenix Talk: Ireland in Transition 1916-19
New Lodge Arts Presents High School Musical Drop in Art Classes
Belfast - Remaking the City Documentary and Discussion Friday 9th August
Friday 2nd August Prosecuting the Peace: Conference
Public Art Exhibition The Long Streets: Looking Back, Looking Forward
New Lodge Arts Present Junior Theatre Showcase Ceramic Workshop
Saturday 3rd August TDK Family Movie Day
Massive Day of Sport Book Day at the Duncairn
Sunday 4th August Scribes at the Duncairn
Brassneck Theatre Presents Something in the Air Hot August Night Older Peoples Event
Monday 5th August Saturday 10th August
The ‘Arts’ of War Tar Isteach Family Fun Day
Cake Decorating Workshop Internment 1971: Reflections
Tuesday 6th August Sunday 11th August
The Bigger Family Picture: From 1798 to Partition Sailortown/Little Italy/ Half Bap Reunion
Film: The Wanted 18: Palestine For further information on Festival events,
contact Paul O’Neill on 02890742255
Decoupage Workshop – Wine bottles Decoation
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